Fiocco (2007) critiques conceivability-based accounts of modal epistemology, concluding with a brief defense of rational intuition as the source of modal knowledge (cf. Van Cleve, Tidman, and Bealer). The paper can be divided into three main parts. In the first, Fiocco quickly rehearses standard counterexamples to conceivability as understandability, entertainability, believability, etc. we've seen from, e.g. Tidman and Yablo , concluding with special focus on Tidman's "What Counts?" objection to imagination-based accounts. The second focuses on Yablo's imagination-based account of conceivability (with limited discussion of Chalmers' account as well). Fiocco argues that while Yablo's account avoids the "What Counts?" objection, it falls prey to a "Which Worlds?" objection (one he attributes to both Yablo and van Inwagen). The core of the objection is that Yablo-style objectually imagined worlds are purely qualitative in character...
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